OK David, You Can Be An Idiot About Open Access, If You Wish
It always helps if one of these journalistic broadsides against summat understands the summat that the broadside is against. This not being the case...
The Four Day Week
From our Swindon Correspondent:
From the BBC
Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours,...
Younger Remote Workers
From our Swindon Correspondent:
From City AM
The current messy hybrid working compromise risks creating a generational divide. Many older workers will continue to stay at home...
The EFF Horribly Misunderstands Patent Trolls
The purpose of a patent is to provide an income to those who produce public goods like knowledge. ~The argument being that without the...
Stobart Air Goes Bust And We Don’t Care
We have the usual sight of some politician bemoaning the manner in which we taxpayers, us out here, haven't been willing to subsidise a...
That Fastly Outage
From our Swindon Correspondent:
From CapX
Outages like that caused this week by fastly are becoming an increasingly common online phenomenon – one notorious incident was caused...
Expected Profits And ISDS Contract Provisions
As we all know Global Justice Now and Nick Dearden are screaming blue bloody murder about the ISDS provisions in investment contracts. These are...
Pizza Express And The Tipping Laws
This is a useful example of how people will always, but always, play the game. Doesn't matter what the rules are they will be...
Working Hours
From our Swindon Correspondent:
From the BBC
While the study did not cover the period of the pandemic, WHO officials said the recent jump in remote working...
Betting on London
From our Swindon correspondent:
Another example of the religious cult of London:-
“Seething, international, colourful.” “The epitome of modernity.” The source of an “inner freedom that I’ve...